Kepler-62f, an Earth-like planet, is considered a possible habitat for life. It might resemble Endor, with lush forests and life-supporting conditions.

The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a planet is ...

New insights into the extreme conditions behind "disintegrating planets" reveals how they are consumed by the heat of their ...

His team uncovered new details about one particular planet, known as K2-22b, by pointing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at this extreme environment. Astronomers classify certain extreme planets ...

NASA's quest for extraterrestrial life has unveiled ... and likely resides in the habitable zone. Kepler-22b, 600 light-years away, is a super-Earth in its star's habitable zone, 2.4 times ...

The second paper is "A Disintegrating Rocky World Shrouded in Dust and Gas: Mid-IR Observations of K2-22b using JWST ... discovered the disintegrating planet in the previous paper, Kepler found this ...

WASHINGTON — The US Army is taking the next step in recompeting its multi-billion dollar mixed-reality goggle production contract with an official ask to industry to send in viable options ...

NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy, an "enticing empire of stars" that can be seen with the naked eye if weather conditions are just right. About 100 years after astronomer ...

But last week's launch marked a crucial step to pave the way for NASA to send astronauts back to the moon in the years ahead under its Artemis campaign – its first lunar program since the Apollo ...

NASA’s TESS identifies BD+05 4868 Ab, a rapidly disintegrating exoplane The planet loses mass equivalent to Earth's moon every million years Researchers to study it further using the James Webb Space ...